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Shelfmark

MS 371

Main entry--corporate name

Title

Collection of statutes relating to the University of Cambridge. manuscript.

Publication, distribution, etc.

Cambridge, England? between circa 1700 and 1770.

Physical description

1 item (106 leaves) : paper ; 30 x 25 cm.

Note

Title devised by cataloguer. Caption title given at the head of the contents list is: Variæ lectiones in stat. vet. Volume referred to in a memorandum on the front endpaper as a 'Collection of statutes'.

Note

Place and date of production inferred from style of handwriting and provenance information.

Note

The 33 leaves of the volume bearing text have been foliated in a contemporary hand.

Note

Written in black ink italic hand. Ruled in pencil.

Note

The scribe may be J. Smith of King's College Cambridge, as the hand is close to the ownership inscription on the front endpaper. A further inscription on the front endpaper notes that numbers 70, 78 and 85 in the collection have been misplaced, and that they were copied from the 'Proctor's books'.

Note

The first leaf bears a list of contents, written in the same hand as the donation inscription by Edward Betham.

Note

Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on inside front board.

Note

Inscription on inside front board: Liber collegii B.M. de Etona D.D. Edu. Betham socius. 1773. (i.e. given to Eton College by Edward Betham (1709-1783), Fellow of Eton College from 1771).

Binding

Contemporary mid brown reverse calf; blind tooled frames of double fillet and swag roll, with large decorative stamps at each corner; blind tooled decorative roll on board edges; five raised bands; red sprinkled edges.

Subject

Subject

Statutes England Early works to 1800.

Added entry--name

Added entry--place

England Cambridge

Identifier

B49294
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